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Interesting POVs // Romance // Dave Bautista

Ep. 30

Alice Fraser is joined this week by Jen Prokop from the Fated Mates romance podcast, so expect a lot of romance recommendations and tropes!


The subgenre deep dive looks into interesting uses of POV, and Jen is uncomfortable with the increasing use of violence in romance books but enjoyed the romance elements in recent films Superman and Sinners.


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NEWS

Who Is Elara Voss?

FILM Highlander

TV Outlander

Epic Games secures legal win against Google


WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN PUTTING IN YOUR BRAIN?

Superman

Sinners


TROPE ON A ROPE

Jack Reacher series - Lee Child

The Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton

The Hunger Games - Suzanne Collins


SUB GENRE DEEP DIVE - single POV

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemison

Not Your Sidekick - C.B. Lee

Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

The Baby Dragon Cafe - A.T. Qureshi

The Baby Dragon Bakery - A.T. Qureshi

Piranesi - Susanna Clarke


MINES OF EURRGH

Girls and their dragons

Fourth Wing - Rebecca Yarros

Jack West Jr series - Matthew Reilly

American Gods - Neil Gaiman


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